At 16 months of age, many children adapt the way they use a handrail as they walk across a perilously narrow bridge to reach their parents on the other side. These on-the-fly changes that keep them from falling represent an early example of tool use, a hallmark of human intelligence, conclude two psychologists in the May Developmental Psychology.
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